Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROMEMarriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
More St. Jerome Quotes
-
-
Love knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROME -
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROME -
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME -
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME -
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME -
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME -
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROME -
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME -
Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
ST. JEROME -
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME -
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME -
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
ST. JEROME -
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROME -
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME -
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME -
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME -
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
ST. JEROME -
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
ST. JEROME -
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME -
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
ST. JEROME -
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME -
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROME -
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROME -
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME -
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME -
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME